peoples. The common name "Göktürk" emerged from the misreading of the word "Kök" meaning Ashina, the endonym of the ruling clan of the historical ethnic...

Liu, Mau-Tsai (1958). Die chinesischen Nachrichten zur Geschichte der Ost-Türken (T'u-küe) [The Chinese account of the history of the Eastern Turks (Tujue)...

or İye, there are other entities such as Genien (Çor) and demons (Abasi). Kök Tengri is the first of the primordial deities in the religion of the early...

and is a son of Kök Tengri. Kayra is the primordial god of highest sky, upper air, space, atmosphere, light, and life, and is a son of Kök Tengri. Ülgen...

languages comes from the Second Turkic Khaganate. In Orkhon inscriptions, kök türü̲k̲ (𐰚𐰇𐰚 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜) is also mentioned, potentially referring to "Ashina-led...

279 Liu Mau-tsai, "Die chinesischen Nachrichten zur Geschichte der Ost-Türken", vol. 1, pp. 5–6, vol. 2, pp. 489–490, Wiesbaden, 1958 Forsyth (1992),...